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Martina BWC
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I take pictures - I read books - Daily photos - Daily quotes. The rest is cattle, hydrants, rugby, tech and security.
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Martina BWC @blackandwhiteandcolours.de · Oct 12
Do you think I particularly like you?
Do you think I particularly like you?
"Do you think I particularly like you?" - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Day 21: hawfinch. A terror than even greenfinch don't provoke. #artadventcalendar #linoprint #birdart
A lino carved hawfinch A lino carved hawfinch with a coin for scaling purposes
December 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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hanaayoob.co.uk
Day 10 - in May, I started prepping for an art exhibition in the Summer. First up was this octopus who brings me so much joy ❤️🐙
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt
A blue ringed octopus on a blue background. The octopus is painted in orange with 3D painted blue rings with 3D yellow blobs in the middle, the rings have additional blue zigzags around them and turquoise rings on the inside in pen and the remaining octopus skin is filled with yellow stippling. It is also outlined in yellow and has yellow suckers drawn on.
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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In Celtic lore the crow is associated with the Cailleach, the goddess or hag who personifies winter and the landscape. The Cailleach is often depicted with a crow as a companion, or having the ability to transform into one, linking her to themes of death, fate, and prophecy.
#ArtAdventCalendar
An original artwork of a crow with a full moon and night sky. Created using acrylic paints on A3 board.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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e-nox.net
Day 21 of making proteins for #ArtAdventCalendar

This shows six zinc fingers bound to a section of DNA, which helps to stabilise it. The zinc fingers are used to control transcription of the gene for ribosomal RNA.

More projects: e-nox.net/portfolio/

#SciArt
Visualisation of six zinc fingers (blue) wrapped around a short section of DNA (red)
December 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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vicesimo primo die Decembris, Minimus fistellam invenit. (On the 21st of December, Minimus finds a whistle.) #latinadventcalendar
Ink and wash drawing of Minimus, the Latin mouse, with a whistle.
December 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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zitronenkaffee.bsky.social
Frosty

#cat #kleineKunstklasse #ArtYear #ArtAdventCalendar
Acrylic painting of a black cat walking on snow
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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mariaaeester.bsky.social
#artadventcalendar

day 18
Krabben in Acryl
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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mariaaeester.bsky.social
#artadventcalendar

day 19
Papierschiffchen in gelb-grün-blau Tönen
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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artbyemilytull.bsky.social
Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Unicorn Beetle"
Rhinoceros Beetle hand embroidered thread painting artwork.
www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p203/r...
#WildlifeArt #embroidery #FiberFriday
A dark yellow and light gold mottled fabric with a hand embroidered Rhinoceros Beetle in profile, facing to the left.
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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mariaaeester.bsky.social
#artadventcalendar

day 21
ein Fischerboot mit roten Flaggen an Bord, Möwen umkreisen es
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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verbrecherverlag.bsky.social
Heute in Mainz - zum 125. Geburtstag von Anna Seghers: Carsten Jakobi und Florian Kappeler stellen den Band „Schreiben über Grenzen. Neue Perspektiven auf die transatlantischen Schriften von Anna Seghers" vor.
Mehr: rlp.rosalux.de/veranstaltun...
Zum Buch: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/schreib...
Schreiben über Grenzen - Anna Seghers als transnationale Autorin. - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Eine weltumspannende Erinnerung zum 125. Geburtstag
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December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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"Praise the Sun"
2019, digital
Ever my choice for the Solstice.
#ArtAdventCalendar
Digital illustration of a green scarab beetle with amber wings extended, raising a textured red sun with its front legs. Rays surround it on all sides, shining through rings of golden clouds, with tiny stars throughout the surrounding darkness of space and more stylized six-pointed stars below the beetle. Art by Moth Monarch.
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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On this darkest solstice day of the year, my heart has dimmed, waking up to learn of the loss of dear colleague and mentor, Yannick Mellier. Yannick will be known to most as the lead of the amazing Euclid Space Telescope which will revolutionise our understanding of the Dark Universe 🧵🔭
Yannick Mellier looking very dapper in tan suit and maroon shirt, arms raised, enthusiastically explaining something in a lecture theatre. This square astronomical image shows thousands of galaxies across the black expanse of space. The closest thousand or so galaxies belong to the Perseus Cluster. The most prominent members of the cluster are visible in the centre of the image and appear as large galaxies with haloes around them in yellow/white, comparable to streetlamps in a foggy night. The background of this image is scattered with a hundred thousand more distant galaxies of different shapes, ranging in colour from white to yellow to red. Most galaxies are so far away they appear as single points of light. The more distant a galaxy is, the redder it appears.] CREDIT ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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uedio.bsky.social
Ein KI-generiertes Desinformationsvideo geht auf Facebook viral und nicht mal der Präsident des durch die Lüge betroffenen Landes kriegt es zügig von der Plattform.
Kaputt.
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
Fake video claiming ‘coup in France’ goes viral – not even Macron could immediately get it removed
Sometime in the second week of December, an improbable video began making the rounds on French-language social media. France, it claimed, was subject to a coup d’état, and President Emmanuel Macron ha...
www.france24.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Zugzwang [TSOOK-tsvahng]
(n.)
- A disagreeable position in which a chess player must make a move but cannot do so without considerable disadvantage.
Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of a set of Celtic chess pieces.
December 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar
21. Dezember

#acryl #artwork #illustration #art #skyart #artist #Nature #bird

harvey186.de/harvey-art/#schmetterlinge
Acryl Bild eine Schmetterlings. Die hinteren Flügel sind gelb, die vorderen sind am Rand braun und in der Mitte Gelb
December 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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mrchriswhite.bsky.social
Oddvent Day 21.

At this point I’ve no idea what’s going on.

#ArtAdventCalendar #Illustrator #Advent #Art #Oddvent
Twenty one aliens sat round a table deciding if they want a starter or not…
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 21: Snowy Bridge

Today’s advent calendar treat is a woodblock print titled Yuhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro by Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige.

The unusual arched bridge in this wintry landscape was known as a ‘drum bridge’ because of its shape.
Detail of a Japanese colour woodblock print depicting a snow covered village, in the foreground is bridge with people crossing over.
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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nevillemorley.bsky.social
A passing thought in relation to the latest discussion of fake citations: this is going to accentuate pre-existing issues with citation practices. Not just the fact that some people, astonishingly, cite things they haven’t actually read, but biases in who gets cited. 1/3
December 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
For #artAdventCalendar day 20 evening very odd edition.

Bouquet of Noses
Pencil on paper
1992
a pencil drawing of a vase with rose stems except they are noses.
December 21, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
Nearly missed day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar but this Spotted Pardalote has just squeaked in under the wire (UK time). Departed from my usual spalshy wash backgrounds for this one as I really liked the stark contrast between the white and this amazing bird.

#BirdArt #SciArt #Illustration #Procreate
An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a Spotted Pardalote perching on a weathered branch. It’s a small puffed up kind of bird with black feathered wings and head that have white spotted markings on. Its chest and body feathers are a cream colour with tones of yellow and orange. The throat feathers have a small rounded patch of vibrant yellowy orange colour. It has a small rounded grey beak. The background of the image is plain white.
December 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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e-nox.net
Day 20 of making proteins for #ArtAdventCalendar

This is a TAL effector, a modular protein from bacteria that can read the sequence of bases in DNA. Scientists have harnessed it to target gene knockouts, or insert new genes.

More projects: e-nox.net/portfolio/

#SciArt
Visualisation of a TAL effector protein (purple) wrapped around a section of DNA (red)
December 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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tentani.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar no17

Mein erstes Weihnachtsmotiv vor ein paar Jahren.

Wie immer mit Finger auf Smartphone gezeichnet, kein AI.
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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tentani.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar no19

Wie immer gilt: mit Finger auf Smartphone gezeichnet, kein AI.
Digital gezeichnetes Rotkehlchen auf einem Zweig vor blauem Hintergrund
December 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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spetersartist.com
Woodchuck. Day 21 of #artadventcalendar.

If life was as simple as a woodchuck eating an Apple would we all be happy?

#painting #wildlifeart
Woodchuck painting eating an Apple
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM